Adding the Missing Link-Integration of Anesthesia and Perfusion Variables into Europe's Largest Congenital Cardiac Surgery Outcomes Database: Methods and First List of Candidate Variables by an ECHSA-EACTAIC-EBCP Collaboration

Meier, S ORCID: 0000-0002-5953-1784, Kousi, T, Arrigoni, SC, Jacobs, JP, Vida, V, Lotto, AA, Sarris, GE, de Somer, F, Sikora, N, Buys, D, Liebenberg, L, van Hoeven, M, Tobota, Z, Long, JB, Vener, DF, Rex, S, Kunst, G and EACTAIC Paediatric & Congenital Subspecialty Committee Database (2026) Adding the Missing Link-Integration of Anesthesia and Perfusion Variables into Europe's Largest Congenital Cardiac Surgery Outcomes Database: Methods and First List of Candidate Variables by an ECHSA-EACTAIC-EBCP Collaboration. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. ISSN 1053-0770

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Abstract

Objectives
Numerous databases exist in the field of cardiac surgery across Europe, but none of them combine the entire captured data of all clinical specialties involved in the care process of patients, including anesthesia and perfusion. To fill this gap, the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) and the European Association for Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care along with the European Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion propose to build a database module for Anesthesia and Perfusion data collected during congenital cardiac surgery and interventional procedures and coupling these data within the existing largest congenital cardiac surgery database in Europe—the ECHSA Congenital Cardiac Database (ECHSA-CCDB). This report will review the state of the development of this database module to date and propose an initial set of variables for collection. The report also outlines the methodology to be followed for the final selection of variables and sets a course for the start of data collection. The scope of procedures to be captured includes pediatric cardiac surgery operations with or without cardiopulmonary bypass and interventional cardiology procedures.

Design
Descriptive study/methods study.

Setting
Congenital cardiac surgery/cardiology/anesthesiology.

Participants
Congenital cardiac anesthesiologists, surgeons, and perfusionists.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	EACTAIC Paediatric & Congenital Subspecialty Committee Database Group; anesthesiology; cardiac surgery; database; interventional cardiology; pediatric heart disease; pediatric, congenital heart disease; perfusion; 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences; 3201 Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology; 3202 Clinical Sciences; Patient Safety; Heart Disease; Congenital Structural Anomalies; Cardiovascular; Rare Diseases; Congenital Heart Disease; Pediatric Research Initiative; 6.4 Surgery; Cardiovascular; 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology; Anesthesiology; 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software R Medicine > RD Surgery
Divisions:	Nursing and Advanced Practice
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date of acceptance:	13 March 2026
Date of first compliant Open Access:	1 May 2026
Date Deposited:	01 May 2026 12:28
Last Modified:	01 May 2026 12:29
DOI or ID number:	10.1053/j.jvca.2026.03.023
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/28502

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